Research

Three CCMB faculty members will be funded this fiscal year through the presidential initiative , which aims to create globally leading bio-sciences research programs focused on solving critical problems.

Bioinformatics students Wei Zhou, Brooke Wolford, Ellen Schmidt and Ryan Crawford, DCMB and CCMB faculty Michael Boehnke, Goncalo Abecasis, Hyun Kang also were part of the team, as were many other UM and Norwegian scientists.

The goal of Kayvan Najarian, Ph.D.’s research, funded by a grant from the American Heart Association (AHA), is to exploit recent advancements in signal processing and machine learning algorithms to construct a fully automated, computer-based platform AngioAid .